Disaster RELIEF: Aceh recovery shows success, failure of aid From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: December 18, 2005| Author: Tim Sullivan | Copyright 2005 Sunday Gazette-Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

It has been a year since the tsunami laid waste to the isolated Indonesian province of Aceh, but tens of thousands of people still live in a vast archipelago of shanty towns made of scrap wood spit back by the sea. Along the coast, towns and villages remain nothing but swampland and ankle-high rubble. In plywood barracks hurriedly built across the region, survivors are jammed together in windowless rooms.

Many people are desperately frustrated.

"We know a lot of money is going t...

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